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Did you know that July is National Picnic Month? I love a good picnic, so I thought this would be the perfect time to share some of my summer picnic essentials. My first memories of picnics were with my parents in Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco with some fresh sourdough and salami. My idea of a picnic has changed a bit since then, but it’s always about good people, good food and good drinks. I believe you can have a picnic almost anywhere, whether it’s on the roof of your home or apartment building or at a local park like the La Brea Tar Pits. I do believe in brining a few of my favorite items to make sure that the experience is perfect though.

Here are my Summer Picnic Essentials:

Make sure that all of your food is in separate containers. I really love the the compartmentalized container that I used in the photos, it keeps 5 different items separated but in the same container for easy transportation. It’s BPA free plastic which is lighter that glass and non-toxic.

We recently bought a picnic table which makes picnicking on uneven services much easier. Especially if you like to take your picnic to the beach.

If you’ve seen my Instagram, you know that I love going wine tasting and I love a good picnic. If you’ve ever been wine tasting, you probably noticed the strange phenomenon that wineries rarely have food. If they do have food, they usually don’t have much variety and it won’t be gluten free (I’m gluten intolerant). Therefore, I’m in the habit of packing a wine picnic when we go wine tasting. I’ve packed quite a few at this point, so I know what works and what doesn’t, so I’m pretty much an expert on how to pack a wine picnic.

Here are my Wine Picnic Essentials:

I decided that instead of buying a picnic table cover that I would simply re-purpose one of my Turkish beach towels.

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Hi! I’m Claire. Thank you so much for checking out my blog. I love classic style, cooking, traveling, finding new beauty products and basically live life to its fullest. I use my blog as a way to tell others about stuff I find, see and do. What’s the fun of keeping this stuff to yourself?